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Bialik, Gadi – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2014
Scholarly writing in the field of education policy analysis often considers two conflicting governance agendas: the social-democratic "public" agenda and the relatively young "neoliberal" governance agenda. These agendas are frequently described as being part of a process of transformation from public or state to private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Governance, School Administration
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Laitsch, Dan – Global Education Review, 2016
In 1955, Milton Friedman authored a foundational paper proposing a shift in funding and governance mechanisms for public K-12 schools, suggesting that parents be awarded tuition vouchers that they could use to pay for private sector education services for their children, rather than relying on government provided neighborhood schools. Friedman…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Vouchers, Neoliberalism, Free Enterprise System
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Balsera, Maria Ron; Dorsi, Delphine; Termes, Andreu; Bonal, Xavier; Verger, Antoni; Gonzalez Diaz, Javier – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Privatisation of education is on the rise, being offered as the best alternative to achieve universal education and improve its quality and cost-efficiency. However, the benefits of the entry of private providers in education are highly controversial and tend to be judged in terms of market criteria such as choice and efficiency, neglecting the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation, Privatization
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Marsh, Tyson E. J.; Knaus, Christopher B. – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2016
In this paper, we examine the role of educational leadership in promoting and/or challenging racism as an intentional outcome of schooling. We focus on Egypt and South Africa, two countries uniquely framed as both deeply divided by race, religion, and/or class and as models of resistance and conscious activism. We draw upon experiences working as,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership
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Hoben, John – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2016
Using discourse analysis, the author identifies contradictions in privatization discourse in order to highlight how state-based educational reform has used a normative language of student interests to fundamentally redefine the nature of the university's mission and its faculty based governance structures. The author proposes a counter-discourse…
Descriptors: Privatization, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
Newfield, Christopher – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Higher Education, Educational Change
Naviwala, Nadia – Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2016
Pakistan suffers from an extensive education crisis. Millions of Pakistani children do not attend school, and those that do must deal with absent teachers and poor learning environments, among other challenges. While this crisis is frequently discussed in Pakistan and beyond, it is often misunderstood. This new Wilson Center report, based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, Teacher Attendance, Interviews
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Jabbar, Huriya; Sun, Wei-Ling; Lemke, Melinda A.; Germain, Emily – Educational Policy, 2018
A growing body of research examines the role of elite networks, power, and race in the advocacy for market-based reforms and their ultimate effects on students, teachers, and communities of color. Yet, less research explores how such reforms interact with gender in the workplace, especially how policies such as school choice, competition, and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization
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Liu, Shuning – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Since 2010, the number of urban Chinese high-school students applying to US universities has rapidly grown. Many of these students have chosen emerging international curriculum programs established by elite public high schools in China. These programs prepare wealthy Chinese students for the US college application process by exposing them to an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, High School Students, Marketing, Access to Education
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Baldridge, Bianca J. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
As pathologizing, racialized, and patriarchal rhetoric undergirds neoliberal education reform, deficit narratives characterize the education of Black youth. Such narratives present deep challenges for educational policy and community-based educational spaces. This article explores the ways in which community-based educators resist narratives of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Neoliberalism, Rhetoric
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Wong, Yi-Lee – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2017
It is believed that the effectiveness and efficiency of school administration can be enhanced in a privatized system of education. However, such belief is narrowly based on studies on school choice and such impact on the quality of teaching and learning. The issue of staff management in understanding school administration is essentially…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Foreign Countries, Efficiency, School Administration
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Schniedewind, Nancy; Tanis, Bianca – Multicultural Education, 2017
Now more than ever public education and multicultural education face daunting challenges. From federal efforts to privatize public education through vouchers, school take-overs, and charters, to the manner in which high-stakes testing has marginalized multicultural education in the curriculum and pedagogy of our nation's schools, and to the…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Parent Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Public Education
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Dakowska, Dorota – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
While the Europeanisation of Higher Education (HE) systems has triggered much debate, the relationship between European factors and domestic economic processes, has been less thoroughly analysed. This article analyses HE reforms in the light of two parallel processes, which have shaped this sector: the introduction of market mechanisms and a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, Social Systems, Social Change
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Mayengo, Nathaniel; Namusoke, Jane; Dennis, Barbara – Ethnography and Education, 2015
With international momentum to achieve "Education for All" by 2015, global attention is being paid to those parts of the world where mass formal primary schooling is relatively new. Uganda is such a place. In the context of ethnographic fieldwork at a poor, undocumented, private primary school in rural Uganda, parents were interviewed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Ethnography, Neoliberalism
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Moritz, Benjamin – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2014
In order to counteract some serious misconceptions in Gary Bell's essay "Honors for Sale," Benjamin Moritz opens this essay with inspirational stories of students who overcame disadvantages to complete their college education The first and most fundamental problem the author notes in Bell's essay is the assumption that privatization and…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Privatization, Institutional Mission, Institutional Characteristics
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